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Podcast: The Meb Faber Show - Better Investing
Episode: Ed Thorp - “If You Bet Too Much, You'll Almost Certainly Be Ruined” | #39
Description: In Episode 39, we welcome the legendary Ed Thorp. Ed is a self-made man after having been a child of The Depression. He’s a professor, a renowned mathematician, a fund manager who’s posted one of the lengthiest and best investment track records in all of finance, a best-selling author (his most recent book is A Man for All Markets), the creator of the first wearable computer, and finally, the individual responsible for “counting cards.”Meb begins the episode in the same place as does Ed in his new book, the Depression. Meb asks how that experience shaped E...